February 2012
19 posts
“Franzen, though, has another point to make. “Edith Newbold Jones did have one...”
– From novelist Victoria Patterson’s (This Vacant Paradise) piece in the LA Review of Books that focuses on Jonathan Franzen’s recent New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton. (via libraryjournal)
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Fuck all of these hypocritical, millionaire paste-bags.
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much DFW, but never enough. →
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I experienced my depressions, bursts of anger, sense of entrapment, as burdens my husband was forced to bear because he loved me; I felt grateful to be loved in spite of bringing him those burdens.
-Adrienne Rich ‘Of Woman Born’
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I am currently very tempted to stop drinking, stop buying optional things, and save all my money so I can switch to a job that pays more poorly and is probably part-time, but will at least be in the field I want to be in.
Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
It’s odd to imagine people you dislike as small children, defenseless, with parents and obligations, but it does serve to remind you that sometimes there are small children you dislike too.
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